Bejing in 2016

It is official, a bid to bring Worldcon to Beijing in 2016 has been formally filed. This means that they will appear on the ballot at the site selection vote in London in August.

Normally I would be all for a bid that is outside the United States, as Worldcon has been too often in the US. However I am a supporter of the rival bid to bring the Worldcon to Kansas City.

Beijing have appeared very late, they only declared they intended to bid at the start of this year(see earlier post). This makes it quite hard for people to have had a chance for us to ask questions, and for them to come up with answers for some of these questions. It makes them seem a little disorganised. When Helsinki in 2015 appeared late, they still did it a full year before the Site selection vote.

I hope that the Bid team will not be discouraged by some of the response that some fans have had, and consider coming back at a later stage.

A Chinese Worldcon would be very different, and I would love to attend one. The current bid committee have impressive facilities.

More information on the bids, along there formally submitted bid documents are available: